Word: outright
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wecter: "[William Waldorf Astor] on June 3, 1917 . . . became Viscount Astor, amid jeers from a large section of the British press which accused him of buying the title outright...
Cassini: ". . . William Waldorf removed himself to England, became a British subject and amid jeers from a large section of the British press, which accused him of buying the title outright, became . . . Viscount Astor...
State Secretary James F. Byrnes finally confirmed an old rumor. Meeting at Yalta. Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill had secretly agreed to pay Russia's asking price for eventually fighting Japan-outright annexation of the Kuril Islands and southern Sakhalin...
...Kurils deal gave added ammunition to U.S. proponents of outright U.S. annexation-as against administration under UNO trusteeship-of such wartime Pacific bases as the Marshalls, Marianas, Carolines and Okinawa (which occupies roughly the same strategic position to the south of Japan as the Kurils do to the north...
Even if prefabricators do get into large-scale production soon, they will still have one hurdle to jump, highest of all. Many a U.S. town, spurred by featherbedding unions and building contractors, has building codes which ban prefabricated houses outright or contain tricky regulations which factory-built dwellings cannot meet. And many a buyer will also find that members of A.F. of L.'s building-trades unions will not wire, install plumbing, or assemble a prefabricated house...